One of our goals at Mosaic is to be a part of the community, to love and serve the community with no secret agendas; because we believe that is how Jesus loves our community. One of the ways that we strive to do this is by opening up the space that God has blessed us with to our community for various events. Over the past couple of years, we’ve hosted English as a second language classes, Children’s theater/acting classes, Special dinners and meetings for other local churches and ministries, we host the ‘Mosaic Art Gallery’ which is open as part of the citywide First Fridays (of each month), and in October we hosted some events for the Irvington Halloween Festival.
In addition to providing giant inflatable games and free cotton candy at the festival on Halloween, our space was used to host the First Annual Irvington Halloween Festival Beauty Pageant and we also hosted the first ever indoor presentations of Irvington Ghost Tours with Al Hunter. While it is very exciting to me personally to see Mosaic stepping up and playing a role in these events; I must admit that I have from time to time caught myself wondering if it makes any difference or has any impact to love and serve in these ways.
In last week’s edition of the Eastside Voice, Al Hunter who hosts the Ghost tours and writes a column for the paper; chose to write about Mosaic and his perceptions of us as a church. Al, if you’re reading this, “Thanks!”. To my family at Mosaic, may you be as encouraged by this article as I was. And to anyone and everyone else that sometimes wonders if it’s worth it to keep loving and serving, often without recognition, I pray that this article may spur you on towards more love and more good deeds.
bumps-mosiac112709.pdf East Side Voice News- Mosaic article